Tas. 7479, 
PHAJUS MisHMensis. 
Native of the Eastern Himalaya. 
: Nat. Ord. OrcHIDE”.—Tribe EpipENDRE. 
Genus Puasus, Lour.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iti. p. 512.) 
Puasus mishmensis ; caulibus fastigiatis erectis elatis basi vix pseudobulbosis 
superne foliosis, foliis alternis quaquaversis elliptico-ovatis -lanceolatisve 
acuminatis 5-nerviis, scapis axillaribus gracilibus elongatis erectis laxe 
plurifloris, floribus erecto-patentibus roseis, bracteis pedicellis gracilibus 
zequilongis lanceolatis acuminatis concavis herbaceis caducis, sepalis 
petalisque lineari-oblongis acutis apicibus subrecurvis, labelli lobis latera- 
libus amplis rotundatis recurvis terminali brevi explanato trilobulato 
lobulis obtusis, intermedio 2-fido, caleare gracili incurvo sepalis dimidio 
breviore, disco crista ciliata instructo, columna gracili supra medium 
dilatata, apice 2-loba, anthera hemispherica pilosula. 
P. mishmensis, Reichb. f. in Bonplandia, vol. v. p. 48; in Walp, Ann. vol. vi. 
pp. 922, 928. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind, vol. v. p. 817, and in Ann. Roy. 
Bot. Gard. Cale. vol. v. pt. I. p. 25, t. 37. 
P. roseus, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin (1893} 6, and (1894) 182 (mishmensis). 
Limatodes mishmensis, Lindl. & Paxt. Fl. Gard. vol. iii. p. 36. 
There are considerable differences in the habit of growth 
of the species of Phajus, of which I took advantage in 
dealing with the Indian species in ‘The Flora of British 
India ;” and it remains to be seen how far the grouping 
there adopted is applicable in the African and other extra- 
Indian species. In P. Wallichii, Lindl., better known as 
P. bicolor, Lindl. (Tab. 4078), the flowering scape arises 
from the side of the pseudobulb. In P. callosus, Lindl., 
of the Malay Peninsula and Java, from the top of the 
pseudobulb. In P. mishmensis the one or more scapes 
are axillary; and in P. albus, Lindl. (t. 3991) the in- 
florescence terminates the leafy stem, which latter character, 
and the bifarious leayes, are those which that species 
was raised to generic rank as Thunia by Reichenbach. JP. 
mishmensis was discovered in the Mishmi Mts. in Upper 
Assam by Griffith in 1836, and was first published by Lindley 
as a Limatodes from Griffith’s Herbarium specimens. It 
has recently been collected in the Sikkim Himalaya by 
Mr. Clarke and other botanists at elevations of 4-5000 ft. ; 
JUNE ist, 1896. 
